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This book uses literature by Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson to investigate the social narratives of several social groups – an urban, middling group; an elite atthe court of James; and an aristocratic faction from the countryside. Under the pressure of increasing economic stratification, these social factions created cultural identities to distinguish themselves often in relationship with lower status groups with which they yet retained complex entanglements. As they re-imagined an older, traditional culture according to their own agenda, literature provided a site for the circulation of their self-narratives which, in turn, shaped writings by well-known authors.  \nFocusing on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merry Wives of Windsor, Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, and Jonson’s Oberon, The Fairy Prince and The Sad Shepherd, Mary Ellen Lamb explores the ways in which early modern literature formed a particularly productive site of contest for deep social changes, and how these changes in turn played a large role in shaping some of the most well-known works of the period.  \nThis book breaks new ground by considering productions of popular culture from above, rather than from below. Drawing from theorists of cultural studies, such as Pierre Bourdieu, Roger Chartier, and John Fiske, this project synthesizes work from disparate fields to provide new readings of well-known literary works. It will be of particular interest to literary scholars, to cultural and social historians, and to general readers interested in fairies, old wives’ tales and hobby-horses.  \nMary Ellen Lamb is Professor in the Department of English, Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale, Illinois, USA. She is the author of Gender and Authorship in the Sidney Circle, and has published widely in journals such as Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Survey, English Literary Renaissance, Review of English Studies, Spenser Studies, and Criticism. She is currently editor of the Sidney Journal.  \nRoutledge studies in renaissance literature and culture  \n1 Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre  \nP.A. Skantze  \n2 The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson  \nMary Ellen Lamb  \n3 Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture  \nLethe’s legacies  \nEdited by Christopher Ivic and Grant Williams  \n4 Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture  \nThresholds of history  \nEdited by Theresa Krier and Elizabeth D. Harvey  \n5 Writing, Geometry and Space in Seventeenth-Century England and America  \nCircles in the sand  \nJess Edwards  \n6 Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood  \nAuthorship, authority and the playhouse Grace Ioppolo  \nThe Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson  \nMary Ellen Lamb  \nFirst published 2006  \nby Routledge  \n2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge  \n270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016  \nRoutledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2006 Mary Ellen Lamb  \nThis edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006.  \n“To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of [eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk](eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk).”  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Li","cbCaiuJrj6hRTlPh","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuJrj6hRTlPh","pdf",1576269,284,"English","# Producing popular cultures\n## Fairies, old wives’ tales, and hobby-horses: rising to (in)visibility\n## William Shakespeare\n## Edmund Spenser\n## Ben Jonson","[{\"question\":\"What is the book’s main focus on popular culture in early modern literature?\",\"answer\":\"It investigates how literature by Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson creates and circulates social meanings within popular culture.\"},{\"question\":\"Which authors and literary works does the book concentrate on?\",\"answer\":\"It centers on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merry Wives of Windsor, Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, and Jonson’s Oberon, The Fairy Prince and The Sad Shepherd.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book explain cultural change among different social groups?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that under economic stratification, social factions developed cultural identities that both distinguished them from lower-status groups and produced complex entanglements, shaping the literature’s self-narratives.\"}]","The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson | PDF",1789986380,437]